Explore artwork depicting the wonderful diversity of India’s plants and animals from the mid-1700s onwards. Such painstaking observation of the natural world played an important part in the success of one of the world’s first corporations - the British East India Company.

View fascinating drawings of Australia’s people, wildlife and landscape as seen by artists of the First Fleet that arrived in 1788 to establish the first British colony. Look beyond the images at the untold story of the Aboriginal people who already lived there.